Dan Seddon

Freelance entertainment journalist for hire boasting 7 years of experience

'Sexy Beast' turns 20: "It’s probably the reason that I was in Indiana Jones"

“It was such, for me, a perfect script. It was like reading a kind of London Shakespeare,” fondly recalls Ray Winstone, the Hackney-born star of big screen gems like The Departed, Nil by Mouth and Cold Mountain.

Of course, he’s actually waxing lyrical about Sexy Beast, the suntanned gangster masterpiece that celebrates 20 years since its Toronto International Film Festival premiere today.

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Why The Prestige is the greatest trick Christopher Nolan ever pulled

A whole decade ago cinemagoers were subject to the illusionary spectacle of Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Lead by a vengeful Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, the English-American director’s adaptation of Christopher Priest’s 1995 novel is one of the new millennium’s most extraordinary cinematic achievements.

Truth Seekers review: Nick Frost and Simon Pegg's Ghostbusters pastiche

The stars of the much-loved Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End) have found their next target; the paranormal. With Amazon Prime Video’s new comedy series Truth Seekers, this is the first time Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have worked on the small screen together since their breakout hit Spaced two decades ago – but can fans expect another slice of fried gold?

'The Proposition' at 15: Nick Cave's ultraviolent Aussie Western

“This is going to be a violent film,” said Nick Cave of his debut screenplay in 2006. “You are to expect some violence.” And grubby Australian western The Proposition didn’t disappoint.

The Third Day soundtrack: scoring TV's most inventive drama of the year

For composers Cristobal Tapia de Veer and Dickon Hinchliffe, folk-horror miniseries The Third Day was a gig filled with possibilities. Separated into a trio of standalone yet interconnected sections: ‘Summer’, ‘Autumn’ and ‘Winter’, each was handed three episodes to score (Tapia de Veer worked on the whole of ‘Summer’ while Hinchliffe took ‘Winter’).

Has The Leftovers’ ambiguous ending finally been answered?

It's been two years since the curtain closed on HBO's existential mystery series The Leftovers, and now we may finally have an insight to the show's ambiguous ending.

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In praise of Hellboy – Why this subversive superhero movie still slays

As Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds foretold in 1994, a tall handsome man with a red right hand was approaching – and 10 years later, Ron Perlman’s Hellboy swaggered onto the big screen. Okay, so maybe the ‘handsome’ part could do with a polish, but otherwise this cigar-chewing demi-demon is a uniquely compelling protagonist.

Joe Exotic music videos: watch the 'Tiger King' star's homemade madness

Ironically, Netflix‘s newest true crime phenomenon Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness includes a menagerie of oddballs. Sliding the zoological ‘cults’ of the American South under the microscope, this docuseries takes a look at the extraordinary escapades of big cat enthusiasts Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin and Bhagavan ‘Doc’ Antle.